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Despite it's drawbacks, I see a day coming, when such a device will become the new Trapper Keeper for school.

Ok then, 15 Marvel comics that should be on the newstands/walmart/on-model/all-ages/on-time/each-story self-contained or three-issue arc at most.

Spider-Man
The Fantastic Four
The Avengers
Hulk
Thor
X-Men
Wolverine (inevitably)
Daredevil
A Team-Up book (to introduce other Marvel characters)
Captain America
Iron Man
3 more, you guys choose

In the Marvel case, I'd eschew Daredevil (because he's a sociopath and his stories are grim and not very "fun"). You already have Wolverine and you have to "lighten" him up for this purpose.

For that matter, the Hulk is problematic too. He's a giant bullying psychopath. Gotta fix that. Then slap him in the Defenders, because the Hulk works better around other heroes to bounce off.

• FF
• Spider-Man
• Cap (Steve Rogers) and the Falcon
• Hulk and the Defenders
• Iron Man and the Avengers
• Black Panther
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Mighty Thor
• Wolverine and the Uncanny X-Men
• MARVEL TEAM-UP starring Spider-Man
• Human Torch
• White Tiger
• MARVEL HORROR stories starring Werewolf, Man-Wolf, Man-Thing, Zombie, ect.
• MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE starring Wolverine
• Spider-Girl

That's 14 titles. People sleep on the Human Torch in his own book. The Torch could be very popular. You get some science fiction, some horror, some humor, some ethnicity, some kung-fu, and so on, while pimping your best characters. Also, actually call the comic THE HULK AND THE DEFENDERS. It's clumsy, but you're selling a product here. Plus you get to whore Spider-stuff and Wolverine in several books.

On the DC Comics side:

• BRAVE AND THE BOLD starring Batman
• DETECTIVE COMICS starring the Batman Family (Green Arrow, Huntress, Black Canary, Man-Bat, Dick Grayson, ect)
• Batman
• Superman
• ACTION COMICS starring the Superman Family (Supergirl, Jimmy Olsen, the Guardian, Superboy, ect)
• Superman and the Justice League of America
• STRANGE ADVENTURES stories starring Weird DC Heroes: Creeper, Question, Doom Patrol, GI Robot, Creature Commandos, Bizarro, ect.
• The Flash
• Green Lantern
• DC PRESENTS starring Green Lantern team-ups
• Robin and the Teen Titans

Eleven titles.

The first iPod was introduced at $399 and $499. Now, there are lots of
middle class and "inner city" kids with digital music players.

If schools begin using tablets instead of textbooks, it's likely they'll be
free to a lot of kids.

If libraries begin letting you use tablets like they let you use computers,
that's another way.

And obnoxious as it may be, the fact that low income people can't afford
something has never really stopped changes like this from happening, has
it?

In the mid 1940s, just before the widespread adoption of TVs, movie
theater attendance was around 60 million per week in the US. Between
1946 and 1960, movie theater attendance dropped 75%.

60 million tickets a week comes out to something like 3 billion per year.
Attendance this year, in a much, much larger country was 1.4 billion. Box
office dollars are way up because it costs a fortune to see a movie, not
because more people are going.

Movie theaters didn't go away, but this went from a nation where almost
everyone went to a movie every week to a nation where most people go
about 4 times a year.

You are now much, much more likely to have seen a movie at home than
in a theater.

And ask the big 3 TV networks what happened when cable channels
proliferated because of digital technology. The technology changes, and
peoples habits change.

I'm sorry to keep harping on this. I'll stop.

Edited by Sean Blythe on 03 November 2010 at 5:00pm

Anyone else still curious what Brian Joseph Mayer does for a living?

I'm still curious myself!

You out there, Brian Joseph Mayer? :)

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Flavio: I am with Nathan.

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Oh well... Some things best remain a mystery! :)